All Steve Lacy Quotes
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
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You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
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They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
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I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
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We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.
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When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
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